. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . t has been eliminatedin the stoneless plums. As yet very little has been accomplished in thisdirection. There is, to be sure, a Bolivian peachwhich is remarkable in that it has a globular stonevery little larger than a good-sized pea. The fruititself is of intermediate size and poor quality;moreover, it is produced sparselyj and the tree ispeculiarly subject to the peach maladies. Thefruit has been thought hardly worth crossing withour ordinary peaches on account of its inferiorqualities, yet the diminutive stone
. Luther Burbank, his methods and discoveries and their practical application; . t has been eliminatedin the stoneless plums. As yet very little has been accomplished in thisdirection. There is, to be sure, a Bolivian peachwhich is remarkable in that it has a globular stonevery little larger than a good-sized pea. The fruititself is of intermediate size and poor quality;moreover, it is produced sparselyj and the tree ispeculiarly subject to the peach maladies. Thefruit has been thought hardly worth crossing withour ordinary peaches on account of its inferiorqualities, yet the diminutive stone suggests that itwould be possible by such crossing to produce asuperior peach having an exceedingly small stone. Time and patience would, of course, be re-quired to carry out such an experiment, but itsresults could hardly be in doubt. It is possible, however, that the experiment ofreducing the size of the peach stone will proveless inviting than the attempt to remove the stonealtogether. My success in producing the stonelessplum points the way to a possible development [170]. Nectarine-Peach Cross This picture hai peculiar interest as illustrating the greatdlversitu of form that mag be shown by fruit of mixed heritagegrowing on the same branch. As one parent is smooth-skinned andthe other fuzzg, interesting experiments mag be carried oatin noting the wag in which these qualities aretransmitted to different members of theprogeng, particularlg In the sec-ond generation. LUTHER BURBANK through which the peach also may at some timebecome stoneless. And it is not unlikely that the Bolivian pea-stone peach, which has shown a propensity tominimize the stone, may be utilized advanta-geously in the course of these experiments. It is true that no stoneless peach of whateverquality is known, comparable to the original wildbuUace of Europe, that gave the opportunity inthe development of the stoneless .plum. But, for-tunately, I have been able to demonstrate that thepeach may be hybridized
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